When to End a Coaching Engagement
Engagements that should have ended are more common than engagements that ended too early. Five signals it is time, how to raise it, and why ending well produces referrals.
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Engagements that should have ended are more common than engagements that ended too early. Five signals it is time, how to raise it, and why ending well produces referrals.
How a client talks is often better data than what they say. Five linguistic signals worth tracking, what each tends to indicate, and the trap of over-reading a single session.
Most coaching goals are set in an unrepresentative hour and fail on contact with an ordinary week. How to set goals that bend instead of breaking, and when to change one.
Clients underestimate their own progress for a specific psychological reason, and it costs coaches renewals. Four ways to make change visible using evidence the client cannot argue with.
Completion rate is a design property, not a measure of client motivation. Six rules for between-session work, and why the assignments coaches like least tend to work best.
A missed commitment is information, not misbehaviour. The four reasons clients don't follow through, how to tell them apart, and what to say in the first sixty seconds of the session.
Coaches abandon progress tracking because every system they try costs more time than it returns. What is actually worth measuring, what to ignore, and how to make it near-zero effort.
Nearly every new coach's first clients come from the same four places, and none of them is marketing. What to do in your first ninety days, and what to charge while you are doing it.